ROMEO KALTENBRUNNER - Heimweh

Romeo has to go home - from Vienna to Upper Austria, because his grandmother is dying again. The journey to his native village becomes a trip back in time to his childhood and youth: he meets his old school sweetheart, whom he wasn't allowed to kiss back then. Her family forbade it - partly because of the wrong skin colour, mainly because of too few hectares (note: zero).

Romeo visits a tent festival where the same band still plays as it did 15 years ago, and the same Nazis still want to beat him up as they did 15 years ago. Surrounded by the smell of grilled chicken and slightly drunk on an entire box of Jägermeister, he becomes nostalgic: should he not return to Vienna after all, where people are more liberal but unfortunately also duller?

In his second cabaret programme "HEIMWEH", Romeo Kaltenbrunner talks about growing up in the countryside - and what it feels like when you look foreign, contrary to what your own surname and dialect would suggest.